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optimism n. What a programmer is full of after fixing the last bug and before discovering the next last bug.
Fred Brooks's book "The Mythical Man-Month" (See "Brooks's Law") contains the...
Oracle, the The all-knowing, all-wise Internet Oracle rec.
humor.oracle), or one of the foreign language derivatives of same....
Orange Book n. The U.S. Government's standards document "Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria, DOD standard 5200.
28-STD, December, 1985" which characterize secure computing architec...
oriental food n. Hackers display an intense tropism towards oriental cuisine, especially Chinese, and especially of the spicier varieties such as Szechuan and Hunan.
This phenomenon (whic...
orphan n. [Unix] A process whose parent has died; one inherited by init(1). Compare zombie.
orphaned i-node /or'f*nd i:'nohd/ n. [Unix] 1.
[techspeak] A file that retains storage but no longer appears in the directories of a filesystem....
orthogonal adj. [from mathematics] Mutually independe
well separated; sometimes, irrelevant to....
OS /O-S/ 1. [Operating System] n. An abbreviation heavily used in email, occasionally in speech.
2. n. obs. On ITS, an output spy. See "OS and JEDGAR" in Appendix A....
OS/2 /O S too/ n. The anointed successor to MS-DOS for Intel 286- and 386-based micro
proof that IBM/Microsoft couldn't get it right the second time, either....
OSS Written-only acronym for "Open Source Software" (see open source.

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